TheBanyanTree: Looking Out My Back Door

[Cecil]

At 1:00 PM -0700 5/4/03, Theta Brentnall wrote:
>I don't get much pleasure, looking out my back door today.  Things are much
>too still in the back yard.  When I went out this morning on the daily hunt
>for Ethel's egg, I found only sorrow.  Something big and fierce invaded the
>yard last night.  There are tracks of a cat much larger than a house cat,
>most likely a bob cat's track, in the soft dirt of the flower beds, and
>only a scattering of feathers where Ethel made her nest in the iris.  There
>was another pile of feathers down by the back fence and no ducks.  No Fred
>and Ethel at all.  My poor duckies.

Oh darn, Theta! I'm shocked and saddened. I'm glad, though, that I had the
opportunity to see those ducks.

Tearful hugs,

Cecil